Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to prison for 25 years on Thursday for having pilfered customer funds from his crypto exchange FTX, became famous for thinking about pretty much everything in life as a series of gambles. And the correct decision was always to bet on whatever option had, in economist-s
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First EV decline since 2020?
The past few days have seen a passel of negative data points r
Her favorite Taylor Swift song greets her when she gets home from work, and it brings a sense of comfort because her house is smart enough to know what she wants. Another person is grateful his home knows when to lower the thermostat during peak hours. A push notification lets yet someone else know that a flood sensor is going off in his home while he is away on business. But he does not panic because luckily, he paired the smart sensor with a motorized valve ball that can automatically clos
A former TikTok employee sent letters of complaint this month to the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor alleging that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is sabotaging workers’ ability to cash in their stock options, by making it functionally impossible for them to do so freely.
Patrick Spaulding Ryan, who worked at TikTok from 2020 to 2022, says across his series of complaints the issue is the result of an unregulated corporate culture at ByteDance that mistr
Reddit is an online repository containing nearly endless information on every imaginable topic. So maybe there’s irony in me steering you there for tips on how to be more productive. But there are some very helpful subreddits that can help you stay motivated, disciplined, and efficient—all while saving a ton of time.
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Starlink’s bid for more spectrum allowance in the U.S. isn’t going as it hoped. This week, the Federal Communications Commission shot down its request to use regions of spectrum in the 1.6/2.4 GHz bands and 2 GHz bands that include bands exclusive to Globalstar ($GSAT) and Dish. Starlink would have used these bands for its mobile connectivity service.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for his role in the fraud and conspiracy scandal that took place at the crypto exchange. That was far less than the 40 to 50 years prosecutors were
For years, groups of celebrities, human-rights organizations, even regular old users have asked Meta to take LGBTQ worries about safety more seriously. These requests go back at least a decade and stretch to as recently as January, when Facebook’s oversight board
The content creator behind a viral video storm over AI-generated influencers has confirmed that she indeed did authorize the company Arcads to use her likeness in a generative video tool that was then deployed to create a video advertising hygienic wipes.
Earlier this week, a video went viral showing a woman ranting about “stanky body odor” while sitting in the front se
Americans, in case you haven’t heard, are obsessed with short-form videos. The average TikTok user in the U.S. spends 97 minutes per day on the platform. YouTube users, meanwhile, spend a little under 90 minutes on the video sharing site; Instagram users dedicate over 30 minutes a day to scrolling the Meta-owned network.
Despite all that success, a significant per